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Buffett compares Wall Street to gamblers, would trust 'monkeys' over financial advisers

Buffett compares Wall Street to gamblers, would trust 'monkeys' over financial advisers

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett took swipes at Wall Street and financial advisers, saying the game is "simple" and that investing is not so different from gambling.

"The market has been extraordinary," Buffett said while answering questions. "Sometimes it’s quite investment-oriented … and other times it’s almost totally a casino. It’s a gambling parlor."

"That existed to an extraordinary degree, encouraged by Wall Street because the money is in turning over stocks."

Buffett, 91, shared no love for financial advisers and Wall Street, saying they make money by feeding off "the crumbs from the table of capitalists" and called investment a "simple game."


"It’s amazing how hard people make what is a simple game, but of course if they told people what a simple game it is, 90% of the income of people speaking would disappear," he said, saying there was much that people could do themselves.

"I hate to use the example, but you can have monkeys throwing darts at the page, and, you know, take away the management fees and everything, I’ll bet on the monkeys," he added.

Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger then shared a joke in which a financial adviser asks for $50,000 of an investor’s net worth upfront, calling it the adviser’s "contribution to your future."

"It’s a peculiar business," Munger said.

Buffett said that if anyone was advising their child on how to "make money per point of IQ and per erg of energy, tell them to go to Wall Street."

Tens of thousands of people turned out to Omaha, Nebraska to listen to Buffett and Munger wax philosophical on their investment activity and current markets. This year, Buffett and Munger will share the spotlight with Buffett’s eventual successor, Vice Chairman Greg Abel, along with Vice Chairman Ajit Jain, who runs Berkshire’s vast insurance business.

Buffett himself is predicting a record-breaking crowd of more than 40,000, although Berkshire later put out a statement downplaying that number.

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